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Paper, 'On a method of meteorological registration of the chemical action of total daylight' by Henry Enfield Roscoe

Reference number: PT/71/3

Date: 1864

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45 manuscript pages and seven plates showing graphs of chemical intensity of daylight.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture.—On a method of meteorological registration of the chemical action of total daylight'.

Received by the Royal Society on 8 November 1864. Read 22 December 1864.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 13, 1864.

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PT/71/3
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1864
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Ink on paper
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52 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Enfield Roscoe

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Henry Enfield Roscoe, Paper, 'On a method of meteorological registration of the chemical action of total daylight' by Henry Enfield Roscoe, 1864, PT/71/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_71_3/paper-on-a-method-of-meteorological-registration-of-the-chemical-action-of-total-daylight-by-henry-enfield-roscoe, accessed on 03 December 2024

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